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Aesha John; Hannah Bednar – Inclusion, 2018
This article reports findings from a qualitative analyses of interviews with five first-generation immigrant Indian mothers caring for a child with a developmental disability in the United States. The interviews aimed to probe the reasons underlying maternal stress while dealing with their child's special educators and doctors. Thematic analyses…
Descriptors: Indians, Immigrants, Mothers, Child Rearing
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Pellien, Tamara – Journal of Extension, 2016
Shrinking budgets and increased demands for services and programs are the norm for today's Extension professional. The tasks of procuring grants, developing fund raisers, and pursuing donors require a large investment of time and can lead to mission drift in the pursuit of funding. Implementing a collaborative fee-based program initiative can fund…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Sustainability, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Billings, Karen J.; Blaschke, Charles L. – Educational Technology, 2016
The authors review past and current funding/support for U.S. K-12 educational technology companies. They review both who provided the funding for product development and the reasons why. They look back to the 1960s and 1970s, when federal government agencies helped produce computer-based materials, then how the schools' access to technology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Financial Support, Barriers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mamun, Shamsul Arifeen Khan; Rahman, Mohammand Mafizur – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2016
In 2013 and 2014, the Australian Federal Government introduced the Gonski reforms and fee deregulation measures to reform the prevailing financing provisions for education sectors in Australia. The central proposition of the proposed new measures was to reduce the funding of public universities by the Federal Government. One likely consequence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Resource Allocation
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Caruso, Emily; Schunko, Christoph; Corbera, Esteve; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Vogl, Christian R.; Martin, Gary; Arrázola, Susana; Bandeira, Fábio Pedro; Calvo Boyero, Diana; Camacho Benavides, Claudia; Cardoso, Thiago Mota; Chan-Dzul, Albert; Conde, Esther; del Campo García, Carlos; Huanca, Tomás; Sampaio, José Augusto Laranjeiras; Oliveros Lopez, Sara; Porter-Bolland, Luciana; Ruiz Betancourt, Olga – Journal of Research Practice, 2016
This article explores the relationship between institutional funding for research and community-based or co-enquiry research practice. It examines the implementation of co-enquiry research in the COMBIOSERVE project, which was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for research and innovation, between the years 2012 and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Research, Community Involvement, Inquiry
Santiago, Paulo; Ávalos, Beatrice; Burn, Tracey; Morduchowicz, Alejandro; Radinger, Thomas – OECD Publishing, 2016
The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The "OECD Reviews of School Resources" explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. The series considers four types of resources: financial resources, such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Sullivan, Gregory W.; Blackbourn, Matt – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016
As explored in the first report in this series, the past decade has been a period of tremendous growth for UMass. This growth has taken many forms, including expansion of the school's capital facilities, increased student enrollment, and a growing national profile and public mission. These developments have resulted in innumerable successes for…
Descriptors: State Universities, Multicampus Colleges, School Expansion, Educational Finance
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Meyer, Heinz-Dieter; Zhou, Kai – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper directs attention to important changes in the role and funding of elite private universities in the USA. At the center of these changes is the private endowment--an institution that has for much of its history been a pivotal element of innovation and autonomy, but which is recently tilting towards the production and reproduction of…
Descriptors: Role, Private Colleges, Selective Admission, Institutional Autonomy
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Eton, Marus; Mwirumubi, Richard; Edaku, Charles – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Entrepreneurship is defined as the process where an individual discovers, evaluates and exploit opportunities independently. Most countries have embraced entrepreneurship development as ways of creating employment and economic growth and development. The objective of the study was to examine the challenges faced by commercial enterprises in Lira…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Barriers, Entrepreneurship
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Lashley, Jonathan; Cummings-Sauls, Rebel; Bennett, Andrew B.; Lindshield, Brian L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services, Public Colleges, College Faculty
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Beck, Gillian J.; Hazzard, Donna; McPhillips, Therése; Tiernan, Barbara; Casserly, Ann-Marie – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
This article considers policy and practice in relation to dyslexia provision in Northern Ireland since the 2002 Task Group Report. Using interviews with original and current stakeholders, this research, funded by SCoTENS (Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South), examined the extent to which recommendations have been met in the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Stakeholders
Savski, Kristof – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This article analyses how the drafting and implementation of the Resolution for a National Language Policy Programme 2014-2018, a Slovene language strategy, were influenced by political instability and inter-institutional struggles. By conducting a historical ethnography to trace how different authors contributed to the policy text, and examining…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Slavic Languages, Language Planning, Political Influences
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Money, Julie; Nixon, Sarah; Tracy, Fran; Hennessy, Claire; Ball, Emma; Dinning, Track – Cogent Education, 2017
Students spend 12 to 14 years in school settings learning in what could be considered a carefully controlled and structured environment. Higher education may not offer the same landscape to students and it appears that many enter with unrealistic conceptions of what is expected of them and are faced with different approaches to aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Educational Objectives, Expectation
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Neher, Chris; Patterson, David; Duffield, John W.; Harvey, Amy – Journal of Education Finance, 2017
A significant body of work on the economics of education establishes links between specific interventions, such as class size reduction or increased teacher pay, and educational attainment (often measured by graduation rates). Many of these interventions rely on increased funding, so the current study builds upon previous work by analyzing the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Graduation Rate
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Ulla, Mark B.; Barrera, Kenneth Ian B.; Acompanado, Meller M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study explores teachers' perceptions and motivations, challenges, and needs of 50 teachers in Agusan del Norte, Philippines with regards to doing research. Methodologies used were survey questionnaire, and group and individual interviews. Findings revealed that teacher-respondents had a positive perceptions towards doing research and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Barriers
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